Why is there this overwhelmingly anti-bootstrapping sentiment present in the startup community? What's so wrong with taking outside funding?
"Bootstrapping in business means starting a business without external help or capital."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping#Business
There is nothing wrong with taking outside funding, but then you don't get to call it bootstrapping any more (as per the widely-accepted definition above of what the term means).
This is mixing up terms.